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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:35,004 --> 00:01:36,535 Russia! 2 00:01:39,823 --> 00:01:43,247 ...which we have lost forever. 3 00:01:48,267 --> 00:01:49,565 Winter. 4 00:01:51,883 --> 00:01:53,351 Oh, Lydia... 5 00:01:55,315 --> 00:01:57,050 The peasants celebrating 6 00:01:57,584 --> 00:02:01,991 in a flat sledge opens up the road... 7 00:02:05,558 --> 00:02:08,847 Our horses snort and, snuffling through the snow, 8 00:02:08,967 --> 00:02:11,977 swish through forests of birch and fir 9 00:02:12,097 --> 00:02:16,082 with a trinkle of harness and a crack of whip! 10 00:02:16,507 --> 00:02:20,601 The wolves are invisible behind their howls. 11 00:02:23,185 --> 00:02:27,007 Oh, what a relief it was to hear the Kremlin bells... 12 00:02:28,572 --> 00:02:32,078 and to know that soon we would be safe and warm... 13 00:02:34,374 --> 00:02:36,801 around the samovar. 14 00:02:40,387 --> 00:02:44,075 How these burning winters bring it all back. 15 00:02:46,344 --> 00:02:48,265 You are a tease! 16 00:02:50,646 --> 00:02:52,054 And you! 17 00:02:52,624 --> 00:02:54,335 You are a teaser... 18 00:04:28,864 --> 00:04:31,181 What's that accident all about? 19 00:04:31,946 --> 00:04:34,846 - What accident? - In America! 20 00:04:35,829 --> 00:04:37,685 Why should it matter to you? 21 00:04:38,934 --> 00:04:41,076 It doesn't say anything about an accident... 22 00:04:42,331 --> 00:04:45,219 ...it says just to go crash. Collapse! 23 00:04:48,546 --> 00:04:50,608 The whole street collapsed? 24 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:54,382 ...Wall Street... 25 00:04:55,637 --> 00:04:57,008 Were people killed? 26 00:04:57,469 --> 00:04:58,489 Just a few. 27 00:05:01,025 --> 00:05:02,936 Mostly jumping out of windows. 28 00:05:03,889 --> 00:05:06,250 Nearly all of them were stock holders. 29 00:05:06,631 --> 00:05:08,077 Oh Hermann... 30 00:05:10,225 --> 00:05:14,125 Really, you are such a... such a stupid woman, Lydia. 31 00:05:14,556 --> 00:05:16,669 You've lived here for 7 years already 32 00:05:16,789 --> 00:05:20,295 and you still can't speak the language properly. Still, I don't mind. 33 00:05:21,422 --> 00:05:25,147 Intelligence would take the bloom off your carnality. 34 00:05:26,833 --> 00:05:32,018 No, a woman like you should keep moist and plump... 35 00:05:37,570 --> 00:05:38,570 Lydia? 36 00:05:39,778 --> 00:05:40,778 Lydia! 37 00:05:40,991 --> 00:05:42,801 Who the hell wears red socks!? 38 00:05:42,921 --> 00:05:45,781 Oh! They're Ardalion's... 39 00:05:46,199 --> 00:05:49,438 He's always taking his socks off. You know what it's like. 40 00:05:49,778 --> 00:05:52,035 Your cousin stinks. He should be in a zoo. 41 00:06:03,425 --> 00:06:06,774 Blood is thicker than water, Hermann. 42 00:06:09,295 --> 00:06:10,788 Hermann... 43 00:06:12,644 --> 00:06:15,084 Handsome, isn't it? 44 00:06:15,204 --> 00:06:16,575 Oh, Hermann! 45 00:06:17,340 --> 00:06:19,062 You're so... 46 00:06:20,324 --> 00:06:21,477 masterful! 47 00:06:23,154 --> 00:06:26,818 How dare you come into this room partly clothed. 48 00:06:27,959 --> 00:06:29,368 Off with it! 49 00:06:29,488 --> 00:06:31,374 Have you no sense of indecency? 50 00:06:35,553 --> 00:06:36,984 Don't close the door! 51 00:06:37,104 --> 00:06:38,862 - Why not? - I want it open. 52 00:06:38,982 --> 00:06:42,040 - But Elsie might... - Elsie's gone to bed. Leave it open! 53 00:07:19,358 --> 00:07:22,464 I'd like to know what's going on in your head... 54 00:07:23,509 --> 00:07:25,281 Which one? 55 00:07:25,972 --> 00:07:27,829 I don't understand? 56 00:08:04,537 --> 00:08:07,959 Lydia? Lydia... please! 57 00:08:12,709 --> 00:08:16,069 Come along my feather-brained cockatoo or you'll make me late! 58 00:08:17,515 --> 00:08:18,996 - Quick! - Yes! 59 00:08:21,570 --> 00:08:23,457 Always late, late... 60 00:08:25,994 --> 00:08:28,224 - Oh, Elsie! - Yes Madam? 61 00:08:28,344 --> 00:08:31,160 I'm just riding my husband to the office. Make up the bed!! 62 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,759 I live in a house of parrots. Will you please hurry! 63 00:08:34,086 --> 00:08:35,154 Coming darling! 64 00:08:35,372 --> 00:08:36,391 Oh, Elsie... 65 00:08:37,131 --> 00:08:40,262 And don't forget what I told you about the Christmas tree. 66 00:09:57,046 --> 00:09:58,548 - Good morning, sir. - Morning. 67 00:10:06,055 --> 00:10:08,361 - Good morning. - Good morning, Frau Schmitt. 68 00:10:14,650 --> 00:10:15,690 Please... 69 00:10:19,167 --> 00:10:20,307 Ah, yes... 70 00:10:22,649 --> 00:10:24,001 Too bitter... 71 00:10:24,719 --> 00:10:26,208 or not bitter enough. 72 00:10:26,580 --> 00:10:28,036 That is the problem! 73 00:10:29,943 --> 00:10:31,751 At whom are we aiming? 74 00:10:35,550 --> 00:10:37,730 Some girls only like it bitter. 75 00:10:37,999 --> 00:10:40,335 Fastidious little prigs. 76 00:10:41,132 --> 00:10:44,047 Then there are others, the rich ones, smooth... 77 00:10:44,616 --> 00:10:46,977 who like it milky and chocolaty. 78 00:10:48,166 --> 00:10:49,295 Like my mother. 79 00:10:50,846 --> 00:10:52,614 You know, my mother was like that. 80 00:10:53,016 --> 00:10:55,455 She was a fat bourgeois with too many rings 81 00:10:55,575 --> 00:10:58,634 popping chocolates into her fat, jowly face! 82 00:11:01,918 --> 00:11:05,994 On wet afternoons she would go through an entire box of peppermint creams 83 00:11:06,346 --> 00:11:08,718 and the family photograph album. 84 00:11:10,174 --> 00:11:11,174 Thank you. 85 00:11:12,297 --> 00:11:14,129 I don't know why I tell you all this. 86 00:11:14,457 --> 00:11:15,719 Please excuse me. 87 00:11:16,277 --> 00:11:19,000 No, the problem is not here in the chocolate, 88 00:11:19,219 --> 00:11:21,403 the problem is in New York. 89 00:11:22,798 --> 00:11:25,628 Germany has borrowed 7 billion dollars. 90 00:11:25,968 --> 00:11:28,322 Mostly from American investors. 91 00:11:28,929 --> 00:11:33,254 And now... the chocolate spree... is over. 92 00:11:33,734 --> 00:11:35,924 There would be plenty of money around... 93 00:11:36,337 --> 00:11:38,558 if it wasn't for this government 94 00:11:38,678 --> 00:11:41,677 giving it all away to greedy foreigners. 95 00:11:41,797 --> 00:11:44,553 But reparations must be paid, Müller. 96 00:11:44,673 --> 00:11:45,673 Who says? 97 00:11:47,641 --> 00:11:50,381 Well... the treaty of Versailles! 98 00:11:50,950 --> 00:11:53,413 I didn't start the war, Why should I pay for it? 99 00:11:54,299 --> 00:11:56,306 Anyway, the war has been over 12 years. 100 00:11:56,434 --> 00:11:58,451 My God! As long ago as that? 101 00:11:58,551 --> 00:12:00,766 Now the politicians are betraying us. 102 00:12:01,525 --> 00:12:04,341 If it wasn't for the reparations, Ge-- 103 00:12:04,461 --> 00:12:08,758 Germany could rebuild, and become strong again and... 104 00:12:09,073 --> 00:12:10,963 ...regain her place... 105 00:12:11,083 --> 00:12:13,953 as the greatest country in Europe! 106 00:12:15,221 --> 00:12:18,399 Müller, Müller! You begin to sound like that man in the newspapers. 107 00:12:18,519 --> 00:12:19,963 - Alfred... - Alfred Hugenberg sir! 108 00:12:20,083 --> 00:12:22,634 - Alfred Hugenberg. - Some of the newspapers say that, too! 109 00:12:23,435 --> 00:12:25,934 Alfred Hugenberg owns those newspapers, yeah? 110 00:12:26,201 --> 00:12:29,010 I don't care! 120 billion gold marks! 111 00:12:29,130 --> 00:12:30,919 It will cripple us all! 112 00:12:31,271 --> 00:12:34,123 You should have been at the plebiscite meeting last night. 113 00:12:34,243 --> 00:12:36,018 I am a foreigner here! 114 00:12:36,270 --> 00:12:40,139 If enough of us vote against the payments. 115 00:12:40,691 --> 00:12:42,698 That would be the end of it. 116 00:12:43,908 --> 00:12:45,841 What could the French do? 117 00:12:46,702 --> 00:12:48,935 I suppose they could occupy the Ruhr... 118 00:12:49,287 --> 00:12:51,727 like the last time you didn't keep up the payments. 119 00:12:52,006 --> 00:12:53,440 They are still there. 120 00:12:53,707 --> 00:12:55,418 French and British troops! 121 00:12:55,648 --> 00:12:57,432 On German soil! 122 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:01,053 Excuse me. 123 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,420 In my opinion, this is just a little too bitter. 124 00:13:07,453 --> 00:13:08,453 Slightly. 125 00:13:08,481 --> 00:13:09,481 Thank you. 126 00:13:13,948 --> 00:13:15,064 Hermann! 127 00:13:16,349 --> 00:13:17,724 Lydia! 128 00:13:18,340 --> 00:13:20,316 How about dinner out? 129 00:13:20,865 --> 00:13:22,447 Perfect! Good! 130 00:13:28,287 --> 00:13:30,216 Ardy's here, Hermann. 131 00:13:30,689 --> 00:13:32,279 Just borrowing the bath! 132 00:13:34,740 --> 00:13:36,233 I hope that's all right! 133 00:13:37,106 --> 00:13:38,866 By all means... 134 00:13:43,765 --> 00:13:45,864 Why don't you bring your laundry? 135 00:13:46,689 --> 00:13:47,976 ...while you're about it? 136 00:13:48,096 --> 00:13:49,564 Won't keep you a minute! 137 00:13:50,372 --> 00:13:52,107 Your gogel-mogel, Hermann? 138 00:13:52,227 --> 00:13:54,486 That gogel-mogel is my gogel-mogel! 139 00:13:55,444 --> 00:13:58,513 Only one gogel-mogel is your gogel-mogel, Ardy. 140 00:13:58,804 --> 00:14:02,153 The other gogel-mogel is Hermann's gogel-mogel. 141 00:14:10,938 --> 00:14:13,620 Since it is not a chocky-wocky... 142 00:14:15,504 --> 00:14:18,137 I don't care whose gogel-mogel it is. 143 00:14:20,209 --> 00:14:21,310 No thank you. 144 00:14:26,792 --> 00:14:30,311 I drink to the plump dumpling breasts and buttocks of your wife! 145 00:14:30,602 --> 00:14:34,111 And I drink to the plump dumpling brains of your cousin. 146 00:14:34,414 --> 00:14:35,922 I intended a complement! 147 00:14:36,242 --> 00:14:38,063 - Speaking as a painter. - And so do I! 148 00:14:38,183 --> 00:14:41,165 Speaking as a connoisseur of soft centers. 149 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:45,296 Chocolate technology lags hopelessly behind 150 00:14:45,416 --> 00:14:49,271 the sweet confectionery of Lydia's grey matter. 151 00:14:50,133 --> 00:14:51,780 If you opened her cranium, 152 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:53,300 like an Easter egg, 153 00:14:53,688 --> 00:14:58,117 you would find inside it, a motley assortment of creams, of fondant, 154 00:14:58,237 --> 00:15:03,809 ...of praline, rum truffles, liquid liquors, 155 00:15:04,246 --> 00:15:06,297 and my favorite: 156 00:15:07,425 --> 00:15:09,063 Turkish Delight. 157 00:15:10,714 --> 00:15:11,714 My God! 158 00:15:12,429 --> 00:15:14,638 You think I patronize her? 159 00:15:15,759 --> 00:15:18,308 But anyone can tell you that she adores me! 160 00:15:19,678 --> 00:15:23,333 She needs a patronizing type like I need a patronize-able woman! 161 00:15:24,159 --> 00:15:26,028 We're a perfect couple. 162 00:15:26,477 --> 00:15:29,365 I like literature, she likes trash. 163 00:15:31,631 --> 00:15:35,247 I'm clear-thinking, she's scatter-brained. 164 00:15:38,917 --> 00:15:40,519 She's messy... 165 00:15:41,878 --> 00:15:44,026 We are a perfect match! 166 00:15:45,785 --> 00:15:48,626 Like a lock... and a key. 167 00:15:48,746 --> 00:15:50,531 Oh, Hermann! 168 00:15:51,004 --> 00:15:54,317 You talk about life as if it had some deeper significance! 169 00:15:54,437 --> 00:15:56,909 You be careful, Ardalion! Be very careful what you say! 170 00:15:57,443 --> 00:15:59,481 Because I think over there 171 00:15:59,723 --> 00:16:02,611 is a man who looks exactly like 172 00:16:03,193 --> 00:16:05,625 ...a Viennese quack! 173 00:16:08,605 --> 00:16:11,201 Lydia will be returning, but only momentarily. 174 00:16:11,321 --> 00:16:14,422 Do you want to make a bet? She usually goes out twice! 175 00:16:15,143 --> 00:16:18,213 The first time because she's left her comb on the wash basin 176 00:16:18,333 --> 00:16:20,775 or else she needs some small change... 177 00:16:20,895 --> 00:16:24,204 Ah! Here she comes now. Look at her! Isn't she wonderful? 178 00:16:24,324 --> 00:16:26,699 Look at her clothes. Aren't they beautiful? 179 00:16:26,819 --> 00:16:29,927 Her color sense is based entirely on linguistics. 180 00:16:30,145 --> 00:16:34,539 Brick red goes with cherry red because, after all, they're both red. 181 00:16:34,866 --> 00:16:36,463 She calls it echoing. 182 00:16:36,693 --> 00:16:38,853 It's the same with her politics, you know? 183 00:16:39,496 --> 00:16:41,918 When they clash, she says they echo. 184 00:16:42,038 --> 00:16:44,867 - Red is red! - Ooh, what are you two talking about? 185 00:16:45,108 --> 00:16:46,578 Russian politics. 186 00:16:46,698 --> 00:16:49,804 But what can you expect of Bolsheviks? 187 00:16:50,034 --> 00:16:51,551 I couldn't find my lipstick. 188 00:16:55,283 --> 00:16:56,739 You, uh... 189 00:16:56,859 --> 00:16:58,074 dropped it. 190 00:17:12,552 --> 00:17:14,726 I suffer but I never complain. 191 00:17:16,030 --> 00:17:18,875 Ardalion? Shall I tell you a marital secret? 192 00:17:20,475 --> 00:17:24,758 There are some things which only a husband and wife know about each other. 193 00:17:24,993 --> 00:17:27,201 I don't think that would be quite fair to Liddy... 194 00:17:27,321 --> 00:17:28,321 Why not? 195 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,860 It's all in the family. And, "blood is thicker than water"... 196 00:17:33,980 --> 00:17:36,783 as Lydia is apt to remark so wittily. 197 00:17:38,904 --> 00:17:40,506 - Are you ready? - No, no. 198 00:17:41,125 --> 00:17:44,249 - I find it most offensive of you to- - Just as I thought! 199 00:17:44,369 --> 00:17:48,495 You are nothing but a Ukrainian peasant pretending to be a Bohemian! 200 00:17:52,540 --> 00:17:54,044 Please give me the check. 201 00:17:56,116 --> 00:17:58,221 All right. Tell me then. 202 00:17:58,989 --> 00:18:00,632 She never quite... 203 00:18:01,184 --> 00:18:02,917 puts out her cigarette. 204 00:18:16,551 --> 00:18:18,387 - Orlovious! - Huh? 205 00:18:18,507 --> 00:18:21,300 My friend says you look like a quack. He wants to speak to you. 206 00:18:21,539 --> 00:18:23,332 Well, I have more reason than most... 207 00:18:23,477 --> 00:18:26,462 Then you mean you are? Oh, my dear sir! 208 00:18:26,630 --> 00:18:29,582 Would you mind just talking shop to me for a moment? 209 00:18:29,839 --> 00:18:32,007 - Not at all but, uh... - Please, do sit down. 210 00:18:32,133 --> 00:18:34,049 - Thank you. - No, thank you. 211 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:37,374 What do you know...? 212 00:18:37,494 --> 00:18:41,173 What do you know about this subject: dissociation? Huh? 213 00:18:41,957 --> 00:18:44,542 The, uh... the split person... 214 00:18:44,557 --> 00:18:48,472 The man who stands... outside himself. 215 00:18:49,143 --> 00:18:52,801 I'm thinking of writing a book about such a person. Maybe two books. 216 00:18:53,684 --> 00:18:56,424 What... what... what does it mean? 217 00:18:56,544 --> 00:18:58,105 What is known about it? 218 00:18:58,225 --> 00:18:59,914 What do you think it means? 219 00:19:00,154 --> 00:19:02,835 Does it only happen when you are drunk? 220 00:19:04,976 --> 00:19:06,255 Me? 221 00:19:06,683 --> 00:19:09,967 What do you make of that... Doctor? 222 00:19:10,993 --> 00:19:12,825 - Sex or violence? - Oh, please! 223 00:19:12,945 --> 00:19:15,174 Oh, please! Or tell him he's in love with his mother. 224 00:19:15,294 --> 00:19:16,894 And why shouldn't I be? 225 00:19:17,249 --> 00:19:19,640 She was beautiful and refined. 226 00:19:19,883 --> 00:19:22,687 Pure Russian... of old, princely stock. 227 00:19:23,381 --> 00:19:26,870 I remember, in the summer, she used to wear lilac silk... 228 00:19:26,986 --> 00:19:30,912 and sit in a rocking chair, fanning herself. 229 00:19:31,977 --> 00:19:35,499 I seem to hear Chopin. Rather badly played... 230 00:19:35,742 --> 00:19:39,458 It is myself... at the piano, under the careful eye 231 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,076 of Frau Schiller, my governess. 232 00:19:42,767 --> 00:19:44,698 Still talking politics? 233 00:19:45,347 --> 00:19:48,911 This is Dr. Orlovius and my name is Hermann and this is my wife. 234 00:19:51,526 --> 00:19:55,016 - Mr. Orlovius. - You're not a doctor? 235 00:19:55,807 --> 00:19:58,280 I am in the insurance business. 236 00:19:59,405 --> 00:20:03,544 - But surely you implied that you-- - That I don't mind talking shop. 237 00:20:03,685 --> 00:20:06,779 Tell me. Do you have a life policy? 238 00:20:07,460 --> 00:20:08,460 No? 239 00:20:08,555 --> 00:20:11,785 Then perhaps I might explain some of the advantages. 240 00:20:31,886 --> 00:20:34,757 "Come on out, Silverman! -- We've got you surrounded!" 241 00:20:41,430 --> 00:20:43,342 "Isn't that Sergeant Brown?" 242 00:20:59,889 --> 00:21:02,175 "That's my brother. I'm going to talk to him." 243 00:21:37,748 --> 00:21:41,217 - How do they do it? - There's a line down the middle. 244 00:21:41,337 --> 00:21:43,509 This cherry brandy is disgusting, Hermann! 245 00:21:43,609 --> 00:21:44,933 "Don't you ever think of mother?" 246 00:21:45,703 --> 00:21:47,605 I can't see any line! 247 00:21:48,310 --> 00:21:50,352 - A line has length but no breadth. - Beautiful. 248 00:21:50,385 --> 00:21:52,383 "The many tears she has shed have washed the life from her eyes." 249 00:21:52,408 --> 00:21:54,204 If you could see it, it wouldn't be a line. 250 00:21:54,944 --> 00:21:56,313 It would have breadth! 251 00:21:56,362 --> 00:21:57,948 "Mother always loved you more than me. All the more since the accident." 252 00:21:57,986 --> 00:21:59,843 The fact you can't see it, proves it's a line. 253 00:22:02,136 --> 00:22:04,523 Too much sugar in the schnapps, Hermann. 254 00:22:04,857 --> 00:22:07,321 Change the recipe. That's my advice. 255 00:22:10,633 --> 00:22:12,873 Give me your hanky, pussy! 256 00:22:23,376 --> 00:22:25,261 Hanky, dear! 257 00:22:37,406 --> 00:22:39,351 "He's dead." 258 00:22:48,393 --> 00:22:50,904 "That's not Sergeant Brown. It's Silverman." 259 00:23:13,212 --> 00:23:16,564 "He's dead. We always respected you, Sergeant Brown." 260 00:23:24,729 --> 00:23:26,269 Good morning, Mr. Hermann. 261 00:23:27,892 --> 00:23:29,591 Good morning, sir. 262 00:23:39,557 --> 00:23:42,176 The liquor centers are not moving well. 263 00:23:43,896 --> 00:23:46,531 Two consignments have been returned already. 264 00:23:52,318 --> 00:23:54,181 Not enough sugar in the schnapps. 265 00:24:02,912 --> 00:24:04,375 Hello, you! 266 00:24:06,236 --> 00:24:08,405 I've seen you before somewhere. 267 00:24:08,525 --> 00:24:09,637 Your face. 268 00:24:10,522 --> 00:24:11,716 In the cinema. 269 00:24:12,497 --> 00:24:14,170 I never go to the cinema. 270 00:24:14,555 --> 00:24:17,469 Don't lie to me. I know. 271 00:25:34,472 --> 00:25:38,830 If you're not coming to bed, you could at least bring me my book! 272 00:25:51,101 --> 00:25:52,813 Please! 273 00:26:54,779 --> 00:26:56,433 Thank you, Elsie. 274 00:27:11,879 --> 00:27:12,879 Lydia? 275 00:27:13,830 --> 00:27:14,830 Lydia! 276 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,058 I'm thinking of going to Dusseldorf for a couple of days. 277 00:27:19,173 --> 00:27:21,360 - Where's that? - In the Ruhr. 278 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,725 - Is that in Germany? - For the moment, yes. 279 00:27:24,762 --> 00:27:26,239 Something important happening? 280 00:27:26,288 --> 00:27:29,422 A chocolate factory is on the verge of going bankrupt... 281 00:27:31,694 --> 00:27:34,055 And I am going to do a murder. 282 00:27:35,108 --> 00:27:36,404 A murder? 283 00:27:37,354 --> 00:27:38,421 Merger. 284 00:27:39,268 --> 00:27:40,827 I shall gobble them up! 285 00:27:42,210 --> 00:27:46,949 Hermann, you're wonderful! But I'll be terribly lonely without you. 286 00:27:49,148 --> 00:27:52,127 Why don't you get Ardalion to amuse you? 287 00:27:52,741 --> 00:27:54,877 Isn't that what cousins are for? 288 00:27:59,782 --> 00:28:01,374 I made a small donation. 289 00:28:01,494 --> 00:28:04,634 Those are the only people not prepared to sell us down the river. 290 00:28:05,173 --> 00:28:07,889 This is an unusual line. Ginger creams! 291 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,439 It appeals to sophisticated tastes. 292 00:28:10,711 --> 00:28:12,903 How many hours a day are these machines idle? 293 00:28:13,023 --> 00:28:17,005 I'll tell you frankly: Until last year, the problem was staff. 294 00:28:17,125 --> 00:28:20,042 There were plenty of better paid jobs around. 295 00:28:20,279 --> 00:28:22,997 Now I can have all the people I want, but... 296 00:28:23,203 --> 00:28:25,965 sales are down. What's the answer? 297 00:28:26,427 --> 00:28:27,723 It's murder! 298 00:28:28,382 --> 00:28:29,646 Merger. Ah, yeah. 299 00:28:29,736 --> 00:28:32,225 The wrong people have got the money. You know what I mean? 300 00:28:32,277 --> 00:28:35,789 If that man was in charge, things would be different. 301 00:28:35,909 --> 00:28:37,722 - Hugenberg? - No. Well... 302 00:28:37,842 --> 00:28:40,242 they're all working together, but Hugenberg... 303 00:28:41,102 --> 00:28:45,119 he's too soft... too sophisticated. 304 00:28:45,785 --> 00:28:48,048 Ginger cream... hmm? 305 00:28:50,673 --> 00:28:53,018 An Easter novelty. Very popular. 306 00:28:53,248 --> 00:28:57,335 Chocolate men... like puppets. Not the usual clumsy things. 307 00:28:57,879 --> 00:29:01,221 Two Easters would put a chocolate business back on its feet. 308 00:29:01,375 --> 00:29:04,169 There's a lot of potential here, Hermann. 309 00:29:23,213 --> 00:29:24,716 Let me sleep on it. 310 00:29:24,836 --> 00:29:26,821 Tomorrow is another day. 311 00:29:31,384 --> 00:29:33,976 Tomorrow is the same day in my experience. 312 00:29:34,182 --> 00:29:36,208 I'll call the hotel. 313 00:29:39,118 --> 00:29:40,118 Look... 314 00:29:40,472 --> 00:29:43,604 Is Hermann your first name or your surname? 315 00:29:44,802 --> 00:29:45,983 What you like: 316 00:29:46,086 --> 00:29:48,665 Hermann Hermann Hermann Hermann and hum? 317 00:29:50,804 --> 00:29:53,653 My father was a German speaking Russian from Ravel. 318 00:29:55,021 --> 00:29:58,169 My mother was a Rothschild. 319 00:30:03,869 --> 00:30:05,710 On their wedding day, 320 00:30:06,596 --> 00:30:08,328 he gave her rubies. 321 00:30:09,070 --> 00:30:11,553 Her dowry was her own weight... 322 00:30:12,491 --> 00:30:14,750 in gold coins. 323 00:30:15,303 --> 00:30:19,086 The investigation proved them to be chocolate. 324 00:30:19,206 --> 00:30:23,138 My father died of grief, my mother of diabetes. 325 00:30:24,516 --> 00:30:27,392 I inherited the balance of the chocky-wocks... 326 00:30:27,674 --> 00:30:30,010 and I have never looked back! 327 00:30:30,821 --> 00:30:33,430 My wife is a Finkelberg. 328 00:30:34,624 --> 00:30:36,061 And her dowry... 329 00:30:36,870 --> 00:30:38,423 was her weight. 330 00:30:46,013 --> 00:30:48,135 Most of my information... 331 00:30:50,279 --> 00:30:53,243 comes from forged documents. 332 00:30:54,187 --> 00:30:56,323 As is my fate. 333 00:30:58,777 --> 00:31:02,148 When the war started, I procured some papers 334 00:31:02,340 --> 00:31:08,538 which stated that I was a Blackshirt... fighting the Reds... 335 00:31:08,775 --> 00:31:11,446 in the White Army. 336 00:31:14,595 --> 00:31:17,069 But after Revolution, 337 00:31:17,249 --> 00:31:18,802 I got out... 338 00:31:19,264 --> 00:31:21,048 as a Caucasian... 339 00:31:21,664 --> 00:31:23,449 fighting the Brownshirts... 340 00:31:25,990 --> 00:31:27,735 in the Red Army. 341 00:31:33,183 --> 00:31:34,994 All I really am... 342 00:31:35,315 --> 00:31:37,561 is just a yellow belly 343 00:31:39,846 --> 00:31:41,432 in a brown hat. 344 00:31:43,236 --> 00:31:46,894 But I'm holding on for myself. 345 00:31:47,459 --> 00:31:48,947 Mr. Hermann? 346 00:31:51,458 --> 00:31:53,834 I have decided. 347 00:31:56,878 --> 00:31:58,598 Keep your fucking sheckles! 348 00:33:10,393 --> 00:33:13,065 - Don't you see anything? - What's up? 349 00:33:21,545 --> 00:33:23,115 What's the idea? 350 00:33:29,386 --> 00:33:31,219 Are you blind, or...? 351 00:33:50,629 --> 00:33:52,858 You have my face. 352 00:33:52,959 --> 00:33:54,750 If you say so, mister. 353 00:33:55,663 --> 00:33:59,269 But the rich man never quite resembles a poor man. 354 00:33:59,589 --> 00:34:02,926 With a haircut and a shave, we would be indistinguishable. 355 00:34:03,055 --> 00:34:06,950 The price of a haircut and shave would come in very handy. 356 00:34:11,763 --> 00:34:12,763 Mister! 357 00:34:23,396 --> 00:34:25,069 You got a match? 358 00:34:29,273 --> 00:34:32,726 Couldn't you find... some work for me? 359 00:34:33,133 --> 00:34:34,133 Hmm? 360 00:34:34,247 --> 00:34:36,694 You know we are... we are strangers. 361 00:34:36,814 --> 00:34:39,491 We have, as... as you might say, a... 362 00:34:40,386 --> 00:34:41,386 a bond. 363 00:34:41,457 --> 00:34:44,161 - You can see it? - Yes. 364 00:34:45,794 --> 00:34:49,064 We are as alike as... as two peas. 365 00:34:50,963 --> 00:34:52,962 It's a freak of nature. 366 00:34:54,233 --> 00:34:56,620 Will you turn sideways please? 367 00:34:58,921 --> 00:35:01,713 Oh... excuse me... look this way. 368 00:35:06,451 --> 00:35:08,269 I stand before me. 369 00:35:09,054 --> 00:35:10,797 I'm all right for the summer. 370 00:35:11,375 --> 00:35:12,697 I like travelling. 371 00:35:13,103 --> 00:35:14,876 Picking up this and that. 372 00:35:15,184 --> 00:35:16,352 But come the autumn... 373 00:35:16,559 --> 00:35:18,936 The chromosomatic scale is dotted to infinity, 374 00:35:19,056 --> 00:35:22,166 - But nature's prone to doubles. - It's amazing. 375 00:35:27,535 --> 00:35:30,733 - About this job... - Where will I find you? 376 00:35:30,774 --> 00:35:33,614 This autumn I'm sure to be at the same village where I worked last year, 377 00:35:33,730 --> 00:35:35,074 near Hamburg. 378 00:35:35,132 --> 00:35:38,247 - You could write to me at the post office. - Oh? ...well... 379 00:35:41,761 --> 00:35:43,702 - I'll write it down for you. - Thank you. 380 00:35:44,793 --> 00:35:45,885 Felix. 381 00:35:46,771 --> 00:35:48,093 Weber. 382 00:35:49,043 --> 00:35:50,300 Hamburg. 383 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,865 I hope your trip was successful, sir. 384 00:35:52,985 --> 00:35:54,816 These are difficult times, Frau Schmidt. 385 00:35:54,936 --> 00:35:55,990 Yes, Sir. 386 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,108 Did you hear that Mr. Müller had resigned? 387 00:36:00,249 --> 00:36:01,327 No. 388 00:36:02,817 --> 00:36:05,780 How could he resign... without telling me? 389 00:36:05,900 --> 00:36:07,983 - Telling you, sir? - Yes, me. 390 00:36:08,103 --> 00:36:10,902 Am I mad? Do I own this factory? 391 00:36:11,022 --> 00:36:12,673 Or am I some tramp? 392 00:36:12,793 --> 00:36:14,716 Wandering around, looking for a job? 393 00:36:14,836 --> 00:36:17,861 Oh. Not our Mr. Müller. I mean the chancellor. 394 00:36:18,143 --> 00:36:20,245 The government has resigned. 395 00:36:20,823 --> 00:36:22,773 Oh, the government... 396 00:36:27,876 --> 00:36:29,584 - Hello! - Hello? 397 00:36:29,834 --> 00:36:32,175 You are still giving an excellent performance. 398 00:36:32,295 --> 00:36:33,295 Bravo. 399 00:36:36,451 --> 00:36:38,414 Have you forgotten your place? 400 00:36:38,787 --> 00:36:39,787 No. 401 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:04,368 Müller... 402 00:37:05,844 --> 00:37:07,820 Why did the government resign? 403 00:37:08,046 --> 00:37:11,637 Müller wanted to cut unemployment benefits and got voted out. 404 00:37:11,757 --> 00:37:12,757 Good riddance. 405 00:37:12,799 --> 00:37:15,737 Surely the unemployed should be able to share what's available. 406 00:37:15,857 --> 00:37:18,699 When unemployed increases, then the share decreases. 407 00:37:18,819 --> 00:37:20,755 When it doubles, they should get half. 408 00:37:20,875 --> 00:37:22,713 - That's a bit rough, sir. - Well... 409 00:37:22,833 --> 00:37:25,036 you have to take the rough with the smooth. 410 00:37:25,639 --> 00:37:29,099 If the government could reduce unemployment to about... 411 00:37:29,219 --> 00:37:32,180 ...oh, a dozen, they would be billionaires. 412 00:37:32,778 --> 00:37:35,468 Have you joined the boy scouts or something? 413 00:37:36,554 --> 00:37:40,775 Do you mind me wearing uniform in the office, sir? 414 00:37:42,289 --> 00:37:44,240 No, not at all. 415 00:37:44,792 --> 00:37:48,064 Most appropriate, a chocolate-colored jacket. 416 00:37:54,318 --> 00:37:55,835 This chocolate... 417 00:37:57,041 --> 00:37:58,915 this chocolate tastes, um... 418 00:38:03,055 --> 00:38:05,068 Bitter? 419 00:38:11,303 --> 00:38:12,856 What are you doing? 420 00:38:13,940 --> 00:38:17,309 It's Saturday. We're waiting for you. We're going to the lake. 421 00:38:18,804 --> 00:38:22,379 Don't you remember? You said you wanted to draw me. 422 00:38:24,624 --> 00:38:26,497 Will you wait a minute? 423 00:38:45,170 --> 00:38:47,095 La Boheme, huh? 424 00:39:12,074 --> 00:39:14,729 Is this your contribution to political art? 425 00:39:19,261 --> 00:39:20,724 Oh... no, no. No, no, no. 426 00:39:21,019 --> 00:39:23,992 That was done by the housekeeper's son. 427 00:39:24,112 --> 00:39:26,390 He is interested in politics. 428 00:39:34,406 --> 00:39:35,638 You can have it. 429 00:39:36,690 --> 00:39:39,454 - 35 marks. - No thank you. 430 00:39:40,532 --> 00:39:42,188 Get dressed, Ardalion. 431 00:39:47,590 --> 00:39:48,630 Liddy? 432 00:40:02,086 --> 00:40:03,193 Ardalion! 433 00:40:03,783 --> 00:40:04,783 Come! 434 00:40:05,884 --> 00:40:06,949 Let's start. 435 00:40:07,911 --> 00:40:09,118 Start what? 436 00:40:09,470 --> 00:40:12,148 Oh... oh. Start the art, huh? 437 00:40:13,945 --> 00:40:15,318 Are you in a hurry? 438 00:40:16,725 --> 00:40:18,107 Yes. I'm in a hurry. 439 00:40:18,227 --> 00:40:19,375 By the way... 440 00:40:19,978 --> 00:40:22,006 you've got a tricky face, Hermann. 441 00:40:24,664 --> 00:40:27,557 Would you consider my face unusual? 442 00:42:06,330 --> 00:42:09,330 The modern school. It looks a bit like Hermann. 443 00:42:09,450 --> 00:42:12,218 It looks more like Hermann than Hermann himself. 444 00:42:13,238 --> 00:42:15,664 And all's right with the world. 445 00:42:15,909 --> 00:42:17,013 Oh, please! 446 00:42:17,514 --> 00:42:19,437 - Have one of these! - So kind. 447 00:42:21,324 --> 00:42:22,677 All in order. 448 00:42:22,797 --> 00:42:24,653 And, frankly, it's a bargain. 449 00:42:25,839 --> 00:42:28,063 The premiums were set a year ago 450 00:42:28,183 --> 00:42:32,402 and are well below under the actuarial reality. 451 00:42:32,853 --> 00:42:36,331 - And what kind of reality is that? - To me, the only kind. 452 00:42:36,903 --> 00:42:40,331 And, to you, it's not reality at all: a statistical probability. 453 00:42:40,451 --> 00:42:46,166 Do you mean the probability of my sudden death has increased in the last year? 454 00:42:46,286 --> 00:42:47,612 No. Statistically. 455 00:42:47,856 --> 00:42:50,979 Oh... political riots and violence in the street. 456 00:42:51,099 --> 00:42:55,112 And violence in the families. Violence... violence in the houses and... violence, 457 00:42:55,232 --> 00:42:58,646 - even in the Reichstag and so on and so on. - But I am a foreigner in this land. 458 00:42:58,766 --> 00:43:02,470 It would be presumptuous of me to have a political opinion... 459 00:43:03,959 --> 00:43:05,313 And bad manners... 460 00:43:06,301 --> 00:43:07,559 to express it. 461 00:43:07,679 --> 00:43:10,908 Insurance is above politics. 462 00:43:12,257 --> 00:43:16,107 The Brownshirts and the Communists and... the immigrants... 463 00:43:16,227 --> 00:43:18,445 and Chancellor Brüning, himself: 464 00:43:19,305 --> 00:43:21,089 They're all equal... 465 00:43:21,641 --> 00:43:23,527 under the slide rule. 466 00:43:24,310 --> 00:43:27,532 Each man's risk gravitates to the mean... 467 00:43:28,054 --> 00:43:29,780 One premium for all: 468 00:43:29,900 --> 00:43:32,694 according to age and health. 469 00:43:33,914 --> 00:43:36,938 Is the Chancellor a customer of yours? 470 00:43:37,058 --> 00:43:38,271 Oh, no! 471 00:43:38,515 --> 00:43:42,019 As a matter of fact, he wouldn't be considered such a good risk at the moment. 472 00:43:42,578 --> 00:43:46,852 Trying to force a budget through the Reichstag by presidential decree... 473 00:43:47,506 --> 00:43:49,996 well, it's not considered good for the health. 474 00:43:50,715 --> 00:43:53,132 I think you're so clever! 475 00:43:53,517 --> 00:43:56,109 - Oh, please. Have some more wine. - Thanks. 476 00:43:56,229 --> 00:44:00,064 You don't have to worry about Brüning. He is firmly in the saddle. 477 00:44:00,372 --> 00:44:02,595 You don't think there will be an election this year? 478 00:44:02,715 --> 00:44:07,328 No chance. He's got Hindenburg behind him and the army behind Hindenburg. 479 00:44:07,505 --> 00:44:10,206 Why don't you ever talk like that to me? 480 00:44:10,490 --> 00:44:13,252 Brüning can count on the Social Democrats, 481 00:44:13,372 --> 00:44:16,576 on the Nationalists, and on the National Socialists 482 00:44:16,696 --> 00:44:19,777 who will vote against the Brownshirts and the Bolshies. 483 00:44:20,098 --> 00:44:24,860 But the National Socialists are the Brownshirts. 484 00:44:26,883 --> 00:44:29,787 - You are a stupid idiot. - So what, clever dick? 485 00:44:29,907 --> 00:44:33,116 You can forget about them. What did they get at the last election? 486 00:44:33,297 --> 00:44:35,654 Three percent: twelve seats. 487 00:44:35,917 --> 00:44:39,351 There you are! I know what I'm talking about! 488 00:44:39,486 --> 00:44:41,908 But if there is an election, 489 00:44:42,742 --> 00:44:44,641 that will let the extremists in. 490 00:44:44,988 --> 00:44:47,195 There will be no election. 491 00:44:47,315 --> 00:44:49,771 I fear the National Socialists. 492 00:44:49,891 --> 00:44:52,826 Oh! What can you expect of Bolsheviks? 493 00:44:52,946 --> 00:44:54,853 Nazis, not Communists. 494 00:44:54,973 --> 00:44:59,679 As far as I'm concerned, a Socialist is a Socialist. 495 00:44:59,799 --> 00:45:02,940 Listen. The National Socialists are against the Socialists... 496 00:45:03,060 --> 00:45:05,582 and also against the Nationalists. 497 00:45:06,362 --> 00:45:08,549 That's stupid! It doesn't make sense! 498 00:45:08,669 --> 00:45:11,295 And the People's Party is against the people! 499 00:45:12,309 --> 00:45:13,765 Stop it! 500 00:45:14,972 --> 00:45:16,858 What do you think, Hermann? 501 00:45:21,089 --> 00:45:22,775 I don't think, Lydia. 502 00:45:23,301 --> 00:45:25,701 I've just insured my life. 503 00:45:32,059 --> 00:45:35,319 Here's to my long and happy life. 504 00:45:44,662 --> 00:45:46,660 It looks like Hermann... 505 00:45:47,682 --> 00:45:50,339 in Ardalion's cesspit mind. 506 00:48:48,461 --> 00:48:49,667 Snap! 507 00:48:50,354 --> 00:48:54,254 - Don't waste time. Your turn. - That's for me! 508 00:48:54,554 --> 00:48:57,233 No, it's mine! Oh, yes... 509 00:49:04,870 --> 00:49:07,887 - Snap! - Forfeit! That's the Queen! 510 00:49:08,181 --> 00:49:11,599 - Where is the masterful one going? - I forget. 511 00:49:11,765 --> 00:49:13,744 It sounded like a hat. 512 00:49:21,548 --> 00:49:23,472 Come back and play! 513 00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:29,934 - Panama! - What? 514 00:49:30,126 --> 00:49:32,684 There is only one city in the world like a hat. 515 00:49:32,804 --> 00:49:34,209 Don't be sillies! 516 00:49:34,696 --> 00:49:36,211 Where are you going, dear? 517 00:49:36,331 --> 00:49:39,740 - Oh! There's another one! Hamburg. - That's it! 518 00:49:43,007 --> 00:49:44,213 Not so far. 519 00:49:45,227 --> 00:49:46,946 - Overnight, though? - Oh! 520 00:49:47,156 --> 00:49:49,570 My tummy is feeling funny. 521 00:49:50,886 --> 00:49:54,506 I think I'll spend the whole time in bed. 522 00:49:55,479 --> 00:49:58,174 - Your tummy is feeling funny, Lydia? - Yes. 523 00:49:59,323 --> 00:50:01,701 - Perhaps too much gogel-mogel, yeah? - Yeah... 524 00:50:47,318 --> 00:50:50,296 I wasn't... I wasn't sure if I'd remember you but... 525 00:50:50,566 --> 00:50:53,236 but, as soon as I saw you, I remembered everything... 526 00:50:54,134 --> 00:50:55,651 except the mustache. 527 00:51:00,421 --> 00:51:01,995 There are... there aren't... 528 00:51:02,115 --> 00:51:05,965 There aren't any sparrows here this year. They had to be destroyed. They all... 529 00:51:06,404 --> 00:51:10,859 They all got parrot fever or something like... 530 00:51:11,422 --> 00:51:12,809 like that. 531 00:51:13,896 --> 00:51:18,312 I like sparrows! I... I like sparrows. I... I understand them. 532 00:51:19,398 --> 00:51:21,125 Street painters. 533 00:51:22,636 --> 00:51:25,361 I like squirrels, too, and moles are all right. 534 00:51:25,481 --> 00:51:28,165 I'd like the world to be full of squirrels and moles because... 535 00:51:28,285 --> 00:51:30,443 they are against landlords. 536 00:51:30,563 --> 00:51:32,696 You are a philosopher. 537 00:51:34,325 --> 00:51:36,651 Philosophy is an invention of the rich. 538 00:51:36,771 --> 00:51:39,046 So is religion... poetry. 539 00:51:39,533 --> 00:51:41,625 I don't believe in love either. 540 00:51:44,617 --> 00:51:45,798 Now... 541 00:51:52,299 --> 00:51:53,997 friendship... 542 00:51:55,473 --> 00:51:57,154 that's a different thing. 543 00:51:58,722 --> 00:52:00,646 I'd like to have a friend. 544 00:52:01,763 --> 00:52:03,085 I'd work for him... 545 00:52:04,214 --> 00:52:05,549 as a gardener. 546 00:52:11,137 --> 00:52:13,783 And afterwards, his garden would become mine, and... 547 00:52:14,856 --> 00:52:16,968 I'd live in joy, and... 548 00:52:18,123 --> 00:52:19,869 in joy and dignity... and in... 549 00:52:19,989 --> 00:52:22,026 ...in a natural state. So what do you want? 550 00:52:22,606 --> 00:52:24,852 I told you. I am a film star... 551 00:52:26,174 --> 00:52:27,624 You are a storyteller! 552 00:52:29,340 --> 00:52:30,587 Felix, please. 553 00:52:30,707 --> 00:52:32,500 Felix, Felix, now... 554 00:52:33,437 --> 00:52:34,874 now listen. 555 00:52:35,192 --> 00:52:39,543 Do you know what a double is? 556 00:52:41,506 --> 00:52:42,508 No. 557 00:52:42,786 --> 00:52:44,441 But you have been to the cinema? 558 00:52:44,916 --> 00:52:47,021 Well... yes. 559 00:52:50,427 --> 00:52:53,509 When I want to spend money, I find something better than the pictures. 560 00:52:55,419 --> 00:53:00,189 Thank God most people don't feel as you do, otherwise my profession would be in ruins. 561 00:53:00,309 --> 00:53:02,433 What profession is that? 562 00:53:03,913 --> 00:53:07,852 I told you. I am a film actor. 563 00:53:11,846 --> 00:53:13,251 Ah, yeah. 564 00:53:14,497 --> 00:53:20,866 A double, Felix, is a person who, in an emergency, can stand in... 565 00:53:21,264 --> 00:53:23,216 for a given actor. 566 00:53:23,601 --> 00:53:27,511 Now, imagine this situation... Come. 567 00:53:27,947 --> 00:53:29,385 Imagine this: 568 00:53:29,505 --> 00:53:35,557 I, a film actor, am about to make a film in which I have to play twins. 569 00:53:35,677 --> 00:53:39,586 - I saw a film with uh... - Would you please let me finish? 570 00:53:40,459 --> 00:53:41,460 Thank you. 571 00:53:43,324 --> 00:53:49,735 Sometimes that means that I must be at both ends of the screen at the same time. 572 00:53:49,855 --> 00:53:54,179 A bare-faced swindler. I once saw a film with twins. 573 00:53:54,462 --> 00:53:56,970 You only saw them one at a time... 574 00:53:57,090 --> 00:54:00,448 except when there was a line down the middle. 575 00:54:00,992 --> 00:54:02,694 Are you listening to me? 576 00:54:07,342 --> 00:54:08,677 Go on. 577 00:54:14,937 --> 00:54:17,269 Imagine another situation. 578 00:54:18,591 --> 00:54:20,683 The film is finished. Hmm? 579 00:54:21,260 --> 00:54:24,006 There is only one last shot to do... 580 00:54:24,853 --> 00:54:31,059 where the hero has to drive his car past... but he cannot do it because... 581 00:54:31,179 --> 00:54:35,106 because he's ill, has a cold, has the flu... he's in bed and ill. 582 00:54:36,376 --> 00:54:38,463 And the double has to do it. 583 00:54:39,195 --> 00:54:41,600 But the audience is none the wiser. 584 00:54:42,095 --> 00:54:45,425 And the double has 100 marks in his pocket. 585 00:54:47,984 --> 00:54:49,564 Are you following me? 586 00:54:50,238 --> 00:54:53,090 It's unkind of you to pull a poor man's leg. 587 00:54:53,210 --> 00:54:55,157 I am offering you... uh... 588 00:54:55,277 --> 00:54:57,719 money beyond your wildest dreams of avarice 589 00:54:57,839 --> 00:55:00,833 and a job beyond your fondest dreams of idleness. 590 00:55:06,336 --> 00:55:08,147 We need each other. 591 00:55:10,299 --> 00:55:12,158 It seems you need me. 592 00:55:13,095 --> 00:55:14,725 But you won't come clean. 593 00:55:17,292 --> 00:55:18,908 But it is the truth. 594 00:55:19,909 --> 00:55:21,244 More shame on you. 595 00:55:24,229 --> 00:55:26,008 Now, listen. Listen: 596 00:55:26,128 --> 00:55:29,243 filming is about to begin and if anything happens to me 597 00:55:29,363 --> 00:55:31,733 they will call you and you will arrive. 598 00:55:32,441 --> 00:55:34,276 When he calls me and I arrive nowhere. 599 00:55:34,396 --> 00:55:37,074 - What is the matter with you? - I need your letter. 600 00:55:37,194 --> 00:55:38,194 Well! 601 00:55:38,268 --> 00:55:41,098 I thought you would offer me some respectable work. 602 00:55:41,218 --> 00:55:44,213 Or at least cut me in on a straightforward job. 603 00:55:44,444 --> 00:55:46,472 I've walked a long way to meet you. 604 00:55:46,592 --> 00:55:48,225 - Yeah... - What do I find? 605 00:55:48,345 --> 00:55:50,100 - Filth! - Filth? 606 00:55:55,217 --> 00:55:57,255 Actors... actresses... 607 00:55:59,398 --> 00:56:00,728 pimps... harlots... 608 00:56:00,848 --> 00:56:03,321 I don't want your decadence, tinsel and flesh. 609 00:56:03,497 --> 00:56:08,046 Think to themselves... yes... think they are a cut above these ordinary folk. 610 00:56:08,166 --> 00:56:11,776 You want me to paint my face and mince about, huh? Uh-uh. 611 00:56:12,668 --> 00:56:14,221 Not for me. 612 00:56:15,286 --> 00:56:17,879 Plus, my friends recognize me. 613 00:56:17,999 --> 00:56:19,650 Sit down... Oh, sit! Sit down. 614 00:56:22,548 --> 00:56:24,571 I'm sorry. No. 615 00:56:29,299 --> 00:56:31,096 If you will take my advice, 616 00:56:32,161 --> 00:56:35,357 you will get out of that business before it destroys you morally. 617 00:56:35,855 --> 00:56:36,855 Felix... 618 00:56:37,113 --> 00:56:38,188 Wait! 619 00:56:41,583 --> 00:56:44,052 Excuse me, Hermann. Your key... 620 00:56:51,779 --> 00:56:53,340 Felix, wait! 621 00:56:56,818 --> 00:56:59,410 I can see that you're a very sharp fellow. 622 00:57:00,854 --> 00:57:04,168 You know I have weightier things on my mind, don't you? 623 00:57:08,232 --> 00:57:10,956 How can I regain your confidence? Huh? 624 00:57:12,251 --> 00:57:14,991 I am not a film actor. 625 00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:19,923 I was driving... 626 00:57:20,333 --> 00:57:21,333 Look! 627 00:57:32,260 --> 00:57:33,994 Have you no scars? 628 00:57:35,181 --> 00:57:37,951 - No identification marks? - Why? 629 00:57:39,936 --> 00:57:42,348 - Were you in the war? - I was. 630 00:57:44,061 --> 00:57:47,794 - Weren't you wounded? - I was a kitchen corporal. 631 00:57:51,385 --> 00:57:54,150 You were lucky. I was locked away in Russia. 632 00:57:54,270 --> 00:57:57,387 - I have a German father. - Ah... you were lucky! 633 00:57:57,907 --> 00:57:59,966 I only had a Polish mother. 634 00:58:00,086 --> 00:58:01,532 A Polish mother. 635 00:58:03,008 --> 00:58:04,510 Kitchen corporal. 636 00:58:06,144 --> 00:58:08,677 Have you no scars from hot fat? 637 00:58:09,355 --> 00:58:12,218 - What? - Hot fat. 638 00:58:12,949 --> 00:58:14,887 Oh! Take it all off. 639 00:59:44,837 --> 00:59:46,065 Excuse me. 640 00:59:48,949 --> 00:59:51,301 How long has this picture been here? 641 00:59:51,883 --> 00:59:53,564 It has always been here. 642 00:59:53,860 --> 00:59:55,862 How could it have been? 643 00:59:55,982 --> 00:59:57,274 - You lie! - No... 644 00:59:57,315 --> 00:59:59,275 - You lie, you lie, you lie! - No, no... no, no... 645 01:00:05,102 --> 01:00:06,716 Look... I... 646 01:00:07,987 --> 01:00:09,501 I think I'll go. 647 01:00:09,942 --> 01:00:14,415 - Oh.. excuse me. But why? - You act funny. 648 01:00:14,535 --> 01:00:17,719 Like I've told you... I... I'm not... 649 01:00:18,438 --> 01:00:19,734 I'm not an actor. 650 01:00:19,854 --> 01:00:22,466 I'm really not an actor. My business is not acting. 651 01:00:22,586 --> 01:00:24,584 My business will not defile you. 652 01:00:24,993 --> 01:00:28,694 I have nothing to do with the cinema business. 653 01:00:32,050 --> 01:00:34,727 - Robbery? - What if it is? 654 01:00:38,850 --> 01:00:42,247 I want to perform a certain operation. 655 01:00:43,254 --> 01:00:46,005 And while I'm performing that operation, 656 01:00:46,891 --> 01:00:48,944 I want to be seen... 657 01:00:49,219 --> 01:00:53,608 far away from the place at exactly the same time. 658 01:00:55,215 --> 01:00:57,884 - Do you understand what I'm saying? - Is it robbery. 659 01:00:58,705 --> 01:01:00,411 Listen to me, listen to me, listen to me. 660 01:01:00,681 --> 01:01:01,913 Please listen... 661 01:01:02,144 --> 01:01:04,441 You will drive my car. 662 01:01:04,698 --> 01:01:06,708 You will wear my clothes. 663 01:01:06,828 --> 01:01:10,135 And you will drive through a certain village from a certain street... 664 01:01:10,379 --> 01:01:14,040 where my fa---, ah... excuse me: our face... 665 01:01:14,297 --> 01:01:16,990 our face is recognized. 666 01:01:19,337 --> 01:01:20,505 That's all. 667 01:01:21,737 --> 01:01:24,326 And you will have 1,000 marks. 668 01:01:26,010 --> 01:01:27,473 Small notes. 669 01:01:31,866 --> 01:01:33,736 If you wish. 670 01:01:35,007 --> 01:01:39,268 And you will find them... in your pocket... 671 01:01:41,451 --> 01:01:43,551 You will get caught with the goods. 672 01:01:44,398 --> 01:01:46,498 It'll all come out at the trial. 673 01:01:46,618 --> 01:01:47,735 You'll squeal. 674 01:01:48,567 --> 01:01:50,326 A thousand marks... 675 01:01:55,621 --> 01:01:59,420 When did you ever dream of having one hundred? 676 01:02:01,028 --> 01:02:02,862 I don't care for prison. 677 01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:05,057 The food's good... 678 01:02:06,114 --> 01:02:07,659 but the people... 679 01:02:12,215 --> 01:02:14,104 What if it's all a lie? 680 01:02:21,751 --> 01:02:26,053 Some sort of double cross? Huh? 681 01:03:09,757 --> 01:03:10,997 Madness. 682 01:04:33,849 --> 01:04:36,848 Lydia is here. The woman is very ill. 683 01:04:37,823 --> 01:04:38,823 Hermann! 684 01:04:39,094 --> 01:04:41,553 How nice of you to think of coming. 685 01:04:41,956 --> 01:04:44,182 There's something wrong with my tummy. 686 01:04:44,302 --> 01:04:47,595 It's better now, but I felt awful in the soul in there. 687 01:04:47,715 --> 01:04:51,902 You know what she is like. She always gets sick when you least expect it. 688 01:04:56,285 --> 01:04:57,568 Tell me! 689 01:04:59,442 --> 01:05:01,327 There's nothing really wrong with her. 690 01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:03,459 - Woman's imagination. - Oh! 691 01:05:03,579 --> 01:05:07,045 Aren't you going to stand up for me? Hermann, go on! Tell him! 692 01:05:07,165 --> 01:05:09,950 Do be silent! Both of you! 693 01:05:10,772 --> 01:05:14,211 I'm trying to think something out. And you're putting me off. 694 01:05:21,264 --> 01:05:26,064 Do you remember a painting you made... of two roses... 695 01:05:27,286 --> 01:05:29,326 with a briar pipe. 696 01:05:31,367 --> 01:05:33,723 There was a swastika on the back. 697 01:05:36,688 --> 01:05:37,805 Oh, please. 698 01:05:38,266 --> 01:05:40,422 I remember the swastika but the... 699 01:05:41,243 --> 01:05:43,572 two roses and the briar pipe? 700 01:05:44,532 --> 01:05:46,067 Remember! 701 01:05:51,437 --> 01:05:53,350 Have a look around if you like. 702 01:06:52,409 --> 01:06:54,063 Is that the one? 703 01:06:56,475 --> 01:06:57,475 Yes. 704 01:07:04,603 --> 01:07:08,123 My offer still stands: 35 marks. 705 01:07:09,774 --> 01:07:10,774 No... 706 01:07:11,532 --> 01:07:13,667 It's even worse than I remembered. 707 01:07:20,021 --> 01:07:21,408 Lydia! 708 01:07:26,810 --> 01:07:29,419 - Did you have a good trip? - Yes, fine. 709 01:07:48,465 --> 01:07:49,465 Yes? 710 01:08:04,912 --> 01:08:06,153 Can I help you? 711 01:08:12,605 --> 01:08:15,442 - Pushkin. - Pushkin? 712 01:08:33,574 --> 01:08:36,775 Your... Pushkin... letter. 713 01:08:44,886 --> 01:08:46,254 Thank you. 714 01:09:36,761 --> 01:09:38,620 Life Insurance "New Life" 715 01:09:49,030 --> 01:09:50,030 So... 716 01:10:10,849 --> 01:10:12,644 - Health all right? - Ah... 717 01:10:29,290 --> 01:10:33,292 - Oh! Hello. Good day! - How are you? 718 01:10:35,442 --> 01:10:37,278 How's life? More popular? 719 01:10:37,398 --> 01:10:42,137 Life is a losing proposition. Policy holders are dying like flies. 720 01:10:42,672 --> 01:10:44,791 You don't look too well yourself. 721 01:10:44,911 --> 01:10:46,495 Oh, no. I'm fine. 722 01:10:46,615 --> 01:10:50,114 I'm a... I have a little insomnia... a little bit nervous... 723 01:10:51,364 --> 01:10:53,007 To tell you the truth, 724 01:10:53,610 --> 01:10:56,479 I'm a little bit... I'm a little bit depressed today. 725 01:10:56,952 --> 01:10:58,488 What's the matter? 726 01:11:00,860 --> 01:11:04,970 I've received one of those idiotic blackmail letters. 727 01:11:05,232 --> 01:11:07,879 - It's so stupid... - Blackmail? 728 01:11:07,999 --> 01:11:11,592 Oh, yeah. Some crank's demanding money with menaces... 729 01:11:12,638 --> 01:11:14,618 Have a look at it yourself. 730 01:11:16,423 --> 01:11:19,580 It's illiterate but... uh... I think it makes its point. 731 01:11:22,343 --> 01:11:26,079 - Do you know who sent it? - Yes. He's a rogue. 732 01:11:26,558 --> 01:11:30,410 - He was in the service of my family. - Will you take it to the police? 733 01:11:30,530 --> 01:11:34,359 No... why? He's not quite right in the head. 734 01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:37,319 What's the good of putting a man like that in prison? 735 01:11:37,715 --> 01:11:41,218 - That's a very charitable attitude. - Oh, nonsense, nonsense. 736 01:11:41,338 --> 01:11:43,400 Well, I go this way. 737 01:11:43,826 --> 01:11:45,187 - Goodbye. - Goodbye. 738 01:11:45,456 --> 01:11:48,971 Please... uh... greet your wife for me. 739 01:11:51,300 --> 01:11:53,261 Yes... I will. 740 01:11:53,672 --> 01:11:54,763 But... you know... 741 01:11:55,328 --> 01:11:58,523 sometimes I do envy you your bachelor balls. 742 01:11:58,799 --> 01:12:00,315 Why so? 743 01:12:01,637 --> 01:12:06,820 I have neither priest nor doctor. I need them not at all. 744 01:12:07,535 --> 01:12:12,274 So why shouldn't I confide... in my insurance consultant? 745 01:12:13,908 --> 01:12:16,969 My married life is not very happy. 746 01:12:19,035 --> 01:12:21,217 My wife is interested in... 747 01:12:21,697 --> 01:12:22,890 someone else. 748 01:12:23,930 --> 01:12:28,469 And if anything happened to me... I fear she wouldn't grieve... 749 01:12:28,875 --> 01:12:30,870 for very long. 750 01:12:30,918 --> 01:12:33,377 Certain things I have long observed. 751 01:12:44,606 --> 01:12:46,274 I wish you better things. 752 01:13:08,591 --> 01:13:10,435 I thought you were never coming. 753 01:13:10,555 --> 01:13:13,022 If I had any money, I would've paid and left. 754 01:13:13,139 --> 01:13:14,139 Black coffee. 755 01:13:14,179 --> 01:13:15,976 - Vodka. - Two black coffees. 756 01:13:16,338 --> 01:13:17,605 A beer, please. 757 01:13:18,585 --> 01:13:21,638 Lydia and I are worried about your drinking. 758 01:13:23,287 --> 01:13:25,393 We think it affects your... 759 01:13:26,908 --> 01:13:28,255 your work. 760 01:13:29,397 --> 01:13:31,669 Never felt fitter in my life. 761 01:13:32,571 --> 01:13:34,933 Your work... You've lost your taste for it. 762 01:13:35,071 --> 01:13:37,995 And Berlin encourages your natural vulgarity. 763 01:13:38,115 --> 01:13:39,115 - May I? - Please. 764 01:13:39,180 --> 01:13:41,319 - If you've come here to lecture me... - No! 765 01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:44,255 Lydia thinks you should go to the South. 766 01:13:44,375 --> 01:13:45,375 The South? 767 01:13:45,623 --> 01:13:47,471 Did you hear that? The South? 768 01:13:47,591 --> 01:13:51,963 The South... the South... the South... the South... the South... 769 01:13:52,271 --> 01:13:53,914 Oh, Hermann! Yes! 770 01:13:54,159 --> 01:13:58,728 If only I could get money, money, money... I'd be a different man. 771 01:13:58,848 --> 01:14:01,852 There is a place in the mountains where I found my inspiration. 772 01:14:01,972 --> 01:14:03,174 Lend me 1000 marks 773 01:14:03,294 --> 01:14:06,807 and, if I don't earn it back in six months, I'm a Dutchman. 774 01:14:07,186 --> 01:14:09,405 The main thing for me is that... 775 01:14:09,803 --> 01:14:13,345 The main thing for you is to get you out of Berlin. 776 01:14:20,397 --> 01:14:22,165 Do you really mean that? 777 01:14:23,397 --> 01:14:25,502 Lydia will adore the mountains. 778 01:14:25,816 --> 01:14:28,469 Lydia and I can't come with you. 779 01:14:28,861 --> 01:14:31,356 Let her come. Just for a month. 780 01:14:33,037 --> 01:14:34,051 You see... 781 01:14:34,171 --> 01:14:38,214 She's sort of jealous of my freedom. She'll think I'm getting tight somewhere. 782 01:14:40,511 --> 01:14:42,157 What about your new leaf? 783 01:14:44,251 --> 01:14:45,251 Look... 784 01:14:48,294 --> 01:14:49,975 that's for the visa. 785 01:14:50,288 --> 01:14:53,586 If you promise to stop drinking, I'll give you the money for the ticket. 786 01:14:55,237 --> 01:14:56,823 That's a promise. 787 01:14:58,482 --> 01:15:00,489 I know that I can trust you. 788 01:15:01,259 --> 01:15:02,311 Excuse me. 789 01:15:22,595 --> 01:15:24,640 - What is it? - It's a man. 790 01:15:24,760 --> 01:15:25,826 More soap... 791 01:15:27,442 --> 01:15:29,027 A man... 792 01:15:29,869 --> 01:15:34,600 - What man? What does he want? - He says you know him. 793 01:15:58,529 --> 01:16:03,227 - What does he look like? - Sort of poor. With a shoulder bag. 794 01:16:10,277 --> 01:16:14,139 Tell him to go to hell! And I'm not at home! 795 01:16:14,525 --> 01:16:16,296 I'm not in the house. 796 01:16:16,416 --> 01:16:19,332 I'm not here! I'm not in this world! 797 01:16:25,410 --> 01:16:27,431 I don't know him. 798 01:16:31,068 --> 01:16:33,533 How dare he? 799 01:16:34,482 --> 01:16:35,984 I don't know him. 800 01:16:37,006 --> 01:16:41,150 Tell him I'm dead! Do you hear me? I'm dead! 801 01:16:41,270 --> 01:16:43,689 Mr. Hermann doesn't know you. 802 01:16:44,831 --> 01:16:46,243 No! 803 01:16:46,474 --> 01:16:48,926 No! Stop! 804 01:16:49,046 --> 01:16:50,386 Stop! 805 01:16:50,506 --> 01:16:53,400 Elsie stop! Go, please... go get him! 806 01:16:54,817 --> 01:16:56,680 Go and get him! Stop him! 807 01:16:58,062 --> 01:16:59,844 Hermann! 808 01:17:07,852 --> 01:17:09,469 Lydia... 809 01:17:11,330 --> 01:17:13,987 Have you passed me on the stairs? 810 01:17:14,630 --> 01:17:17,056 What? How could I? 811 01:17:20,137 --> 01:17:22,693 I don't mean me, I... I mean... 812 01:17:24,516 --> 01:17:25,786 Never mind. 813 01:17:26,156 --> 01:17:27,350 Don't think... 814 01:17:28,171 --> 01:17:31,342 I don't know about you and Elsie! 815 01:17:32,770 --> 01:17:35,234 I've known for months! 816 01:17:37,430 --> 01:17:39,514 Oh my God. What a stupid woman. 817 01:17:57,438 --> 01:18:01,142 - Tell him I've gone... - Changed your mind? 818 01:18:09,535 --> 01:18:10,728 Perebrodov! 819 01:18:18,163 --> 01:18:19,788 How about this one? 820 01:18:23,164 --> 01:18:26,137 - Stainless steel? - A Russian painter! 821 01:18:27,710 --> 01:18:29,751 To last a lifetime. 822 01:18:30,508 --> 01:18:31,508 6 marks. 823 01:18:33,351 --> 01:18:34,776 Two for ten. 824 01:18:36,246 --> 01:18:38,349 Two for ten! 825 01:18:48,245 --> 01:18:50,795 Two for ten. 826 01:19:00,156 --> 01:19:02,068 Just my luck! 827 01:19:46,505 --> 01:19:51,205 Lydia, I'm afraid that I've made you very anxious recently. 828 01:19:53,181 --> 01:19:55,994 Because I've not been quite myself. 829 01:19:56,114 --> 01:19:58,107 What now, Hermann? 830 01:19:58,227 --> 01:20:01,744 I was just getting to the exciting part of the story. 831 01:20:05,953 --> 01:20:08,785 I have a story, too... 832 01:20:12,118 --> 01:20:15,455 More frightening, more terrifying... 833 01:20:16,383 --> 01:20:19,184 than anything you have ever read. 834 01:20:20,070 --> 01:20:21,340 Lydia? 835 01:20:23,503 --> 01:20:25,613 Hermann, what's wrong? 836 01:20:26,082 --> 01:20:27,981 Listen to me carefully. 837 01:20:28,918 --> 01:20:33,758 Listen. You have heard me speak of a brother. 838 01:20:33,846 --> 01:20:35,373 - No. - You have. 839 01:20:36,202 --> 01:20:38,005 Yes, I think so. 840 01:20:38,278 --> 01:20:41,911 My dead brother, who I was so close to... 841 01:20:42,578 --> 01:20:46,031 so close, he was almost my second self. 842 01:20:52,386 --> 01:20:56,068 - Dead? - So I thought. 843 01:20:56,783 --> 01:21:01,078 But... you remember when I went Hamburg? 844 01:21:01,198 --> 01:21:02,198 No. 845 01:21:02,251 --> 01:21:03,517 Oh, yes. 846 01:21:04,505 --> 01:21:09,794 In a cafe in Hamburg, I met him by chance. 847 01:21:11,038 --> 01:21:15,242 Now listen very carefully. 848 01:21:24,530 --> 01:21:27,293 We'd been separated by the war. 849 01:21:27,911 --> 01:21:32,134 And believed each other to be dead. 850 01:21:34,779 --> 01:21:40,314 My Felix... with whom I've been inseparable since childhood... 851 01:21:40,840 --> 01:21:45,096 And as like as two drops of blood. 852 01:21:45,215 --> 01:21:48,796 Face to face. Alive! 853 01:21:52,091 --> 01:21:55,654 I say alive, of course, because I was to find 854 01:21:55,774 --> 01:21:58,965 that Felix was morally dead. 855 01:21:59,907 --> 01:22:03,213 This sweet-natured boy that I've known all my life... 856 01:22:03,333 --> 01:22:05,359 This sensitive boy - this musician - 857 01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:09,099 the youngest musician- the youngest violinist in the Bolshoi... 858 01:22:09,548 --> 01:22:12,885 where our mother used to dance before Emperors! 859 01:22:13,005 --> 01:22:15,323 The same boy. This same boy. 860 01:22:15,951 --> 01:22:17,340 He was a cheat... 861 01:22:17,460 --> 01:22:19,530 He was ruined. Ruined! 862 01:22:20,666 --> 01:22:23,810 He was a cheat... a liar, a forger... 863 01:22:23,930 --> 01:22:29,101 God, Lydia. He was a murderer. A murderer! A poisoner. 864 01:22:29,219 --> 01:22:32,024 A poisoner of the woman who kept him! 865 01:22:32,144 --> 01:22:33,989 - Hermann! It just meant... - Shh! 866 01:22:35,729 --> 01:22:38,847 In short... in short... 867 01:22:39,194 --> 01:22:40,747 a lost cause. 868 01:22:42,646 --> 01:22:44,187 Living in hell. 869 01:22:44,487 --> 01:22:48,215 Bent on self-destruction. 870 01:22:55,636 --> 01:22:59,484 Nothing would deflect him from the path that he had chosen: 871 01:22:59,986 --> 01:23:02,086 suicide. 872 01:23:03,481 --> 01:23:04,613 No! 873 01:23:18,189 --> 01:23:19,538 Don't do it. 874 01:23:22,149 --> 01:23:23,758 I'll help you. 875 01:23:28,570 --> 01:23:31,243 Was there nothing you could do to redeem him? 876 01:23:31,778 --> 01:23:34,503 That's just the question I asked him. 877 01:23:35,170 --> 01:23:36,860 And there was! 878 01:23:36,980 --> 01:23:39,534 His soul yearned for redemption. 879 01:23:40,467 --> 01:23:43,321 "I want to make a gift of my death." 880 01:23:43,706 --> 01:23:45,400 Those were his exact words. 881 01:23:45,631 --> 01:23:48,551 He suggested a plan. I said, "No... impossible." 882 01:23:48,671 --> 01:23:50,951 He begged... he pleaded. 883 01:23:51,233 --> 01:23:53,662 He wouldn't listen to me. What could I do? 884 01:23:53,782 --> 01:23:55,733 To refuse him would be a crime. 885 01:23:55,853 --> 01:23:59,830 He is determined to die on his birthday. 886 01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:01,614 Today. 887 01:24:02,615 --> 01:24:05,602 Even the president couldn't talk him out of it. 888 01:24:06,358 --> 01:24:11,443 And so... I intend to be his executioner. 889 01:24:13,182 --> 01:24:17,399 And to take his place in life... myself. 890 01:24:25,132 --> 01:24:26,801 Isn't it a swindle? 891 01:24:28,324 --> 01:24:29,637 A swindle? 892 01:24:30,706 --> 01:24:32,878 The insurance money, Hermann. 893 01:24:34,952 --> 01:24:37,971 The insurance money is not the point. 894 01:24:38,472 --> 01:24:41,822 We have reached a higher spiritual level. 895 01:24:44,103 --> 01:24:46,439 It's much more important that my poor brother 896 01:24:46,559 --> 01:24:49,040 is not swindled out of his last chance 897 01:24:49,160 --> 01:24:51,467 to regain his self-respect. 898 01:24:53,022 --> 01:24:55,628 Will you remember everything that I've told you? 899 01:24:55,748 --> 01:24:57,402 - Yes. - Good. 900 01:24:57,955 --> 01:25:01,048 When they come to tell you that I have been murdered, 901 01:25:01,168 --> 01:25:05,428 please... please don't carry on like a Greek tragedy. 902 01:25:06,689 --> 01:25:09,232 You know what a rotten actress you are. 903 01:25:15,515 --> 01:25:18,205 Orlovius has been dropped a hint 904 01:25:18,325 --> 01:25:21,439 that you are carrying on with someone else. 905 01:25:22,811 --> 01:25:25,038 So you can moderate your grief. 906 01:25:26,219 --> 01:25:29,655 Don't you listen to that Orlovius, Hermann! 907 01:25:29,925 --> 01:25:31,324 He's a gossip! 908 01:25:32,633 --> 01:25:34,275 You don't understand. 909 01:25:36,962 --> 01:25:37,962 Yeah! 910 01:25:38,900 --> 01:25:40,966 It's all so complicated! 911 01:25:43,225 --> 01:25:45,124 Nothing is ready! 912 01:25:46,346 --> 01:25:49,681 And your evening suit! It's at the cleaner's. 913 01:25:49,782 --> 01:25:53,306 I have no desire to be cremated in my dinner jacket. 914 01:25:54,464 --> 01:25:58,699 And drive out of your head any idea of getting ready! 915 01:25:58,956 --> 01:26:01,086 You know nothing! 916 01:26:01,206 --> 01:26:04,424 I'm leaving the house in a perfectly normal way. 917 01:26:05,272 --> 01:26:10,060 When I don't return tonight, you telephone our Orlovius... 918 01:26:10,316 --> 01:26:13,608 and ask his advice. It's very simple. 919 01:26:15,833 --> 01:26:18,580 - And what about Ardalion? - Ardalion? 920 01:26:18,965 --> 01:26:22,879 What's Ardalion got to do with it? I'm talking about a human tragedy, 921 01:26:22,999 --> 01:26:26,119 - and you keep talking about Ardalion! - I'm sorry! 922 01:26:26,979 --> 01:26:28,827 - I'm dizzy! - No! 923 01:26:36,685 --> 01:26:38,457 - Hermann... - What? 924 01:26:38,665 --> 01:26:40,194 Don't go! 925 01:26:43,460 --> 01:26:47,864 - You haven't shaved. - No. Nor the day before, either. 926 01:27:02,781 --> 01:27:03,859 Please... 927 01:27:04,385 --> 01:27:08,704 Everything was so simple... 'til your brother came along! 928 01:27:09,038 --> 01:27:12,709 Let him do what he likes... without you! 929 01:27:13,235 --> 01:27:15,044 It makes no difference to him! 930 01:27:15,340 --> 01:27:17,560 If he's going to be dead anyway! 931 01:27:17,680 --> 01:27:20,825 It will make a difference to his soul. 932 01:27:22,263 --> 01:27:24,111 And now, Lydia... 933 01:27:25,266 --> 01:27:27,178 it is time. It is time. 934 01:27:28,293 --> 01:27:33,089 I will see you in two or three weeks... in Switzerland. 935 01:27:34,216 --> 01:27:38,566 All you have to do... is remember exactly what I told you. 936 01:27:38,686 --> 01:27:41,281 And try not to flirt with the coroner. 937 01:27:43,199 --> 01:27:44,367 The coroner! 938 01:27:45,843 --> 01:27:48,692 Hermann... Hermann, please! 939 01:27:49,924 --> 01:27:51,182 Please! 940 01:27:52,540 --> 01:27:53,618 Lydia... 941 01:27:54,799 --> 01:27:56,185 Lydia! 942 01:27:57,032 --> 01:27:59,535 I'm... I'm just going to work. 943 01:28:00,844 --> 01:28:04,283 It's just... any other morning. 944 01:28:04,994 --> 01:28:07,009 It's perfectly normal. 945 01:28:08,600 --> 01:28:10,641 Lydia, have a happy day. Yeah? 946 01:28:15,304 --> 01:28:16,304 No? 947 01:29:10,617 --> 01:29:11,951 My blackmailer! 948 01:29:12,644 --> 01:29:14,402 What? Don't get excited. 949 01:29:14,903 --> 01:29:17,791 Do you think you're going to get one single penny out of me? 950 01:29:17,902 --> 01:29:19,832 Not if you are going to report me to the police. 951 01:29:19,875 --> 01:29:21,143 No, no, no, no, no... 952 01:29:21,263 --> 01:29:24,661 As I've promised: 1000 marks. 953 01:29:24,943 --> 01:29:26,689 The deal is on! 954 01:29:26,809 --> 01:29:30,008 I knew it! You never took my letter seriously, did you? 955 01:29:34,102 --> 01:29:35,102 No. 956 01:29:36,117 --> 01:29:37,966 Not for a moment. 957 01:29:41,673 --> 01:29:43,482 Did you meet anyone on the road? 958 01:29:43,602 --> 01:29:44,997 Only a cart, 959 01:29:46,237 --> 01:29:48,428 and I hid in the ditch like you told me. 960 01:29:51,872 --> 01:29:54,713 - Good. - I know. 961 01:29:58,708 --> 01:29:59,991 Now, Felix... 962 01:30:00,111 --> 01:30:05,318 the great moment has arrived. You have to change your clothes. 963 01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:10,258 You'll stay here all day... you can sleep the night in the car. 964 01:30:10,489 --> 01:30:13,710 And tomorrow, you can go through the village... 965 01:30:13,830 --> 01:30:15,454 driving through all the streets. 966 01:30:16,325 --> 01:30:18,984 I will give you all the instructions. 967 01:30:19,104 --> 01:30:22,487 But first of all, is your appearance. 968 01:31:19,788 --> 01:31:23,117 A bourgeois capitalist from top to toe. 969 01:31:23,344 --> 01:31:24,021 Ah! 970 01:31:24,141 --> 01:31:26,387 I've forgotten the yellow gloves. 971 01:31:40,169 --> 01:31:42,302 What else have I forgotten? 972 01:31:43,688 --> 01:31:45,497 Let me see you from the back. 973 01:32:03,694 --> 01:32:05,503 Take a few steps. 974 01:32:20,514 --> 01:32:21,849 Now, Hermann. 975 01:32:25,742 --> 01:32:27,087 Thank you. 976 01:32:34,533 --> 01:32:36,009 Elsie? 977 01:32:41,258 --> 01:32:43,363 Are you Mrs. Hermann? 978 01:32:44,993 --> 01:32:46,559 I'm Inspector Schelling. 979 01:32:47,344 --> 01:32:51,029 - Is there any news of Hermann? - Grave news. 980 01:32:51,937 --> 01:32:56,276 - We found him, murdered. - Elsie! Water! 981 01:32:57,339 --> 01:32:58,668 I'm sorry. 982 01:33:03,569 --> 01:33:04,848 Oh my God! 983 01:33:06,285 --> 01:33:07,569 What happened? 984 01:33:07,904 --> 01:33:10,452 We haven't put all the pieces together yet. 985 01:33:11,627 --> 01:33:13,624 He met somebody by arrangement. 986 01:33:14,446 --> 01:33:16,076 Perhaps there was a quarrel. 987 01:33:17,224 --> 01:33:19,321 He was shot at close range. 988 01:33:25,903 --> 01:33:28,734 Hermann didn't have an enemy in the world. 989 01:33:28,854 --> 01:33:31,576 Please, Ardy. Give me the brandy that you prepared. 990 01:33:31,696 --> 01:33:33,998 Ardy is my cousin, you know. 991 01:33:47,537 --> 01:33:51,349 Excuse me, Mr. Orlovius. Do you have a moment for me? 992 01:33:52,299 --> 01:33:56,956 - I have one more question. - Yes, of course. 993 01:34:19,535 --> 01:34:22,548 You said something about a blackmailing letter, didn't you? 994 01:34:23,377 --> 01:34:28,380 Yes. It was a threatening letter. I could see he was worried by it. 995 01:34:29,310 --> 01:34:31,024 I quite understand. 996 01:34:31,275 --> 01:34:34,654 Murdered by person or persons unknown. 997 01:34:41,071 --> 01:34:45,399 I realize money can be no compensation for his loss. 998 01:34:52,874 --> 01:34:54,966 Will you stay in Berlin? 999 01:34:56,937 --> 01:34:58,583 I don't think so. 1000 01:34:59,764 --> 01:35:01,907 There are too many memories. 1001 01:35:07,391 --> 01:35:09,428 Hermann! 1002 01:35:26,654 --> 01:35:28,343 My name is Felix Weber. 1003 01:35:29,113 --> 01:35:32,039 I come from Zwickau. A bachelor. 1004 01:35:43,453 --> 01:35:48,973 I'm very fond of... sparrows, squirrels, moles... 1005 01:35:49,913 --> 01:35:52,603 Philosophy is an invention of the rich. 1006 01:35:53,437 --> 01:35:54,827 How do you do? 1007 01:35:56,303 --> 01:35:57,677 Come here! 1008 01:36:15,031 --> 01:36:16,630 Elsie! 1009 01:36:25,346 --> 01:36:26,782 Inspector Brun. 1010 01:36:27,976 --> 01:36:30,491 Someone from the police to see you! 1011 01:36:33,536 --> 01:36:36,910 Mrs. Hermann? Is your husband at home? 1012 01:36:38,408 --> 01:36:40,821 Don't tell me something dreadful has happened to him! 1013 01:36:51,609 --> 01:36:54,710 I had a premonition about this, Inspector! 1014 01:36:59,265 --> 01:37:00,780 We are not sure... 1015 01:37:01,242 --> 01:37:02,966 The body of a man has been found. 1016 01:37:04,258 --> 01:37:05,433 Murdered. 1017 01:37:06,479 --> 01:37:08,641 My poor Hermann! 1018 01:37:23,245 --> 01:37:26,014 The man, he was wearing your husband's clothes. 1019 01:37:28,453 --> 01:37:31,422 He had papers belonging to your husband. 1020 01:37:38,788 --> 01:37:41,021 This is your husband's passport, isn't it? 1021 01:37:53,531 --> 01:37:54,853 Of course. 1022 01:37:57,319 --> 01:37:59,527 But the victim is not in fact... 1023 01:38:00,977 --> 01:38:02,671 this man in the photograph. 1024 01:38:03,069 --> 01:38:06,895 For heaven's sake! Who looks like his passport photograph? 1025 01:38:12,525 --> 01:38:14,681 It must be Hermann. 1026 01:38:15,939 --> 01:38:18,261 What are you talking about? 1027 01:38:18,770 --> 01:38:20,567 There is no resemblance. 1028 01:38:21,696 --> 01:38:23,486 He is a different man. 1029 01:38:23,895 --> 01:38:25,474 No resemblance? 1030 01:38:26,728 --> 01:38:27,823 Not much. 1031 01:38:30,526 --> 01:38:33,876 Tell me. Is your husband ill at all? 1032 01:38:34,709 --> 01:38:35,709 Ill? 1033 01:38:36,801 --> 01:38:39,368 He's dead... He is dead! 1034 01:38:39,881 --> 01:38:41,460 He's dead! 1035 01:39:23,050 --> 01:39:25,125 I'm expecting a message. 1036 01:39:25,664 --> 01:39:26,947 Is there one? 1037 01:39:27,442 --> 01:39:31,112 I'm so sorry, Mr. Weber. No message has arrived yet. 1038 01:39:31,232 --> 01:39:32,232 Jean? 1039 01:39:33,499 --> 01:39:36,164 How about lunch instead of the message? 1040 01:39:36,862 --> 01:39:38,634 We had a good fish today. 1041 01:39:40,431 --> 01:39:42,536 I'm glad you've read your Schiller. 1042 01:40:39,830 --> 01:40:43,517 These people... are my family. 1043 01:40:44,634 --> 01:40:47,517 - You must understand. - Right. 1044 01:40:48,348 --> 01:40:52,327 My... husband... made it possible... 1045 01:40:54,583 --> 01:40:56,599 for my dreams... 1046 01:40:57,753 --> 01:40:59,279 to come true? 1047 01:41:01,488 --> 01:41:03,407 I knew he... 1048 01:41:05,191 --> 01:41:06,783 he was going to die... 1049 01:41:07,861 --> 01:41:09,555 when we married. 1050 01:41:10,082 --> 01:41:11,113 Just so. 1051 01:41:11,670 --> 01:41:12,838 How tragic! 1052 01:41:17,113 --> 01:41:18,435 Poor stuff! 1053 01:41:21,433 --> 01:41:22,729 Some more. 1054 01:41:23,576 --> 01:41:25,272 And two lumps. 1055 01:41:26,106 --> 01:41:28,917 What do you think, Mr. Weber? Hmm? 1056 01:41:29,456 --> 01:41:31,188 The murder mystery. 1057 01:41:34,068 --> 01:41:37,828 Oh, I'm afraid I gave up reading those a long, long time ago. 1058 01:41:38,722 --> 01:41:40,283 Over the years... 1059 01:41:40,403 --> 01:41:44,236 Conan Doyle, Dostoevsky, Edgar Wallace. So childish! 1060 01:41:44,356 --> 01:41:46,534 All that worrying about clues and alibis, 1061 01:41:46,654 --> 01:41:49,364 Polishing the brasses. Pocketing the wine glass. 1062 01:41:49,484 --> 01:41:51,832 The so-called perfect murder! 1063 01:41:52,666 --> 01:41:54,540 Oh, dear me! No, no, no, no, no... 1064 01:41:55,849 --> 01:41:56,908 Poor stuff! 1065 01:41:57,028 --> 01:42:01,544 Well, uh... What would be the perfect murder, then? 1066 01:42:03,567 --> 01:42:05,415 The perfect murder, Herr Doctor? 1067 01:42:05,941 --> 01:42:08,255 Yeah, the perfect murder. 1068 01:42:08,523 --> 01:42:10,616 The perfect murder... 1069 01:42:11,775 --> 01:42:12,775 Well... 1070 01:42:14,034 --> 01:42:16,729 the perfect murder would be the one... 1071 01:42:18,179 --> 01:42:19,847 which had never happened, 1072 01:42:20,265 --> 01:42:23,043 but which was committed. 1073 01:42:23,571 --> 01:42:27,522 The murder which deceives itself. 1074 01:42:27,642 --> 01:42:29,025 Deceives itself. 1075 01:42:29,610 --> 01:42:31,985 Yeah... of course, it's beyond attainment. 1076 01:42:33,024 --> 01:42:37,956 No, no, no. The perfect murder would be the one in which... 1077 01:42:39,509 --> 01:42:41,481 the victim did it! 1078 01:42:44,999 --> 01:42:45,999 Yeah. 1079 01:42:46,759 --> 01:42:47,888 You see? 1080 01:43:00,465 --> 01:43:03,790 I happen to be something of the philosopher. 1081 01:43:07,929 --> 01:43:10,943 - Which author were you discussing? - Not an author. 1082 01:43:11,174 --> 01:43:14,230 This case in the paper. Your part of the world. 1083 01:43:14,474 --> 01:43:15,474 Hmm? 1084 01:43:15,796 --> 01:43:16,976 Odd case. 1085 01:43:17,765 --> 01:43:21,244 The monster insured his life and then took another's. 1086 01:43:21,364 --> 01:43:22,861 Took another's? 1087 01:43:22,981 --> 01:43:25,851 Surely, you mean the victim's life was insured. 1088 01:43:25,971 --> 01:43:27,686 No! The murderer's. 1089 01:43:28,379 --> 01:43:31,994 It doesn't make sense. He dressed up someone in his suit and then shot him. 1090 01:43:35,111 --> 01:43:36,780 How did they know? 1091 01:43:42,050 --> 01:43:44,343 - How did they know? - Know? 1092 01:43:44,463 --> 01:43:48,618 Yes! That the victim was not the man he was dressed up to be? 1093 01:43:49,187 --> 01:43:53,257 For, presumably, there must have been some kind of a... a resemblance? 1094 01:43:53,827 --> 01:43:55,695 It doesn't mention one. 1095 01:43:57,004 --> 01:43:58,647 Well... look for yourself. 1096 01:44:02,554 --> 01:44:04,763 He must be off his head. 1097 01:44:16,504 --> 01:44:19,199 - Anything new? - No. 1098 01:44:20,123 --> 01:44:22,048 No news. Not yet. 1099 01:44:26,596 --> 01:44:31,648 If we knew... who the dead man was... 1100 01:44:32,829 --> 01:44:36,312 I think we would find your husband quickly enough. 1101 01:44:40,332 --> 01:44:42,679 I told you. It was his brother. 1102 01:44:43,489 --> 01:44:46,194 Your husband had no brother. 1103 01:44:48,188 --> 01:44:50,152 Or was he in the habit of lying to you? 1104 01:44:51,666 --> 01:44:53,656 How would I know? 1105 01:44:55,468 --> 01:44:56,931 Did this stick... 1106 01:44:57,522 --> 01:44:59,178 belong to your husband? 1107 01:45:17,075 --> 01:45:19,575 Ah... they've found a clue. 1108 01:45:24,089 --> 01:45:26,684 A clue! Fantastic. 1109 01:45:28,263 --> 01:45:30,111 They already know the murderer. 1110 01:45:31,181 --> 01:45:33,196 But they won't find him. 1111 01:45:34,852 --> 01:45:37,303 They don't know who the victim is. 1112 01:45:40,456 --> 01:45:42,112 Don't you see that? 1113 01:45:45,949 --> 01:45:49,502 That's a clue to the victim's identity. 1114 01:45:55,348 --> 01:45:57,766 Rubbish! Rubbish! 1115 01:45:58,792 --> 01:46:01,744 It's lies. All's lies! 1116 01:46:02,655 --> 01:46:04,042 Lies! 1117 01:46:09,176 --> 01:46:10,239 Look here... 1118 01:46:12,318 --> 01:46:13,704 you stop doing this. 1119 01:46:15,259 --> 01:46:16,923 Do you understand? 1120 01:46:19,000 --> 01:46:20,214 Please... 1121 01:47:06,493 --> 01:47:09,912 I came here for the peace and quiet. 1122 01:47:14,510 --> 01:47:15,992 For my nerves. 1123 01:47:20,506 --> 01:47:22,512 And this obsession... 1124 01:47:24,154 --> 01:47:25,515 with murder... 1125 01:47:36,447 --> 01:47:38,359 I can't stay here. 1126 01:47:58,062 --> 01:48:00,589 You will find it very quiet here. 1127 01:48:07,127 --> 01:48:08,192 Good. 1128 01:48:09,912 --> 01:48:11,439 Just what I wanted. 1129 01:48:13,675 --> 01:48:15,131 Your passport? 1130 01:48:32,289 --> 01:48:34,540 What instrument do you play? 1131 01:48:36,100 --> 01:48:37,781 Instrument? 1132 01:48:38,564 --> 01:48:39,585 Oh, yeah... 1133 01:48:39,705 --> 01:48:40,705 Cello. 1134 01:48:41,529 --> 01:48:43,236 Cello. I'm a cellist. 1135 01:48:47,175 --> 01:48:50,130 I suppose you have all the ...newspapers here? 1136 01:48:50,615 --> 01:48:54,934 - Of course! - All bluff! All lies! 1137 01:48:56,720 --> 01:48:58,098 Bluff. 1138 01:49:11,340 --> 01:49:12,696 Lies. 1139 01:50:23,514 --> 01:50:24,901 Hello? 1140 01:50:43,972 --> 01:50:46,507 - Sir? - Have you a free room? 1141 01:50:46,627 --> 01:50:49,512 - Yes. - Perfect... perfect! 1142 01:50:50,373 --> 01:50:53,984 A remote abode of work and pure delight. 1143 01:50:56,711 --> 01:50:58,777 - I'm a musician. - Oh. 1144 01:50:59,162 --> 01:51:03,323 Last year, we had actors. A film company was here. 1145 01:51:03,958 --> 01:51:05,960 Even my little bird was killed. 1146 01:51:06,615 --> 01:51:09,503 His name was Heliogabal. 1147 01:51:10,802 --> 01:51:12,568 Sad. So Sad. 1148 01:51:18,910 --> 01:51:19,959 My key? 1149 01:51:21,423 --> 01:51:24,709 We all had parts. The whole village. 1150 01:51:26,891 --> 01:51:28,764 We all were villagers. 1151 01:51:29,265 --> 01:51:31,190 - Here's your key. - Thank you. 1152 01:51:31,512 --> 01:51:33,244 No, no, no. You have to go out there: 1153 01:51:33,364 --> 01:51:35,555 around the corner and up the stairs. 1154 01:51:35,914 --> 01:51:38,235 Your room is the first on the left. 1155 01:51:42,200 --> 01:51:44,338 The first on the left. 1156 01:53:03,628 --> 01:53:05,306 But... 1157 01:54:30,865 --> 01:54:32,210 Yes, it's him. 1158 01:55:26,543 --> 01:55:29,786 - Come. - Hermann Hermann? 1159 01:55:31,170 --> 01:55:32,614 Yes. 1160 01:55:40,033 --> 01:55:41,501 No. 1161 01:56:37,654 --> 01:56:39,335 How childish... 1162 01:56:43,624 --> 01:56:45,285 Poor people. 1163 01:56:47,197 --> 01:56:49,250 We are making a film here. 1164 01:56:52,982 --> 01:56:54,984 In a minute... 1165 01:56:56,421 --> 01:56:58,231 I will be coming out. 1166 01:57:00,484 --> 01:57:04,949 But you must keep the ...policemen back... 1167 01:57:07,410 --> 01:57:09,779 so that I can get away. 1168 01:57:14,664 --> 01:57:16,905 I am a film actor. 1169 01:57:21,032 --> 01:57:22,851 I'm coming out. 1170 01:57:26,817 --> 01:57:30,876 Don't... look... at the camera. 1171 01:57:36,635 --> 01:57:38,604 I'm coming out. 83798

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